Adalbert Stifter Libros

«Hay que advertir que el señor Tiburius, de joven, era un gran mentecato.» Estas palabras son la carta de presentación del neurasténico, solitario y misántropo Tiburius Kneight que, hastiado de todo e instalado en una vida de lujo e indolencia, decide visitar un balneario siguiendo los consejos de un doctor algo chiflado que nunca receta medicamento alguno a sus pacientes. Porque, ¿quién creería a un doctor que prescribiera un paseo por un bosque, una caja de lápices, un cuaderno de dibujo, una cesta de abedul y una campesina que recoge fresas? Narrada con sencillez y frescura, «El sendero en el bosque» es un sorbo de agua de fuente en un día de calor. Un libro lleno de inocencia y sobriedad, pero también de una profunda sabiduría no exenta de destellos de mordacidad, para paladares acostumbrados a los mejores vinos.

¿Qué animal tiene hocico rosado, garras curvas y cuerpo duros y gris? Descúbrelo buscando pistas dentro de este libro. Cuando hayas resuelto el misterio, no sólo descubrirás el animal secreto, tanbién aprenderás dónde vive, qué come y muchos otros datos facinantes.

The first complete English translation of the nineteenth-century Austrian innovator's evocative, elemental cycle of novellas. For Kafka he was “my fat brother”; Thomas Mann called him “one of the most peculiar, enigmatic, secretly audacious and strangely gripping storytellers in world literature.” Often misunderstood as an idyllic poet of “beetles and buttercups,” the nineteenth-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter can now be seen as a radical experimenter with narrative and a forerunner of nature writing’s darker currents. One of his best-known works, the novella cycle Motley Stones now appears in its first complete English translation, a rendition that respects the bracing strangeness of the original. In six thematically linked novellas, including the beloved classic “Rock Crystal,” human dramas play out amid the natural cycles of the Alps or the urban rhythms of Vienna—environments so keenly observed that they emerge as the tales’ most indomitable protagonists. Stifter’s human characters are equally haunting—children braving perils, eccentrics and loners harboring enigmatic torments. “We seek to glimpse the gentle law that guides the human race,” Stifter famously wrote. What he glimpsed, more often than not, was the abyss that lies behind the idyll. The tension between his humane sensitivity and his dark visions is what lends his writing its heartbreaking power.

In "Die Mappe meines Urgroßvaters" setzt Adalbert Stifter seiner Heimat Böhmerwald ein eindrucksvolles Denkmal. Dieses Werk, sein "Lieblingskind", reflektiert tiefgründige Gedanken über das Leben und den Tod. Stifter, ein bedeutender Biedermeier-Autor, widmete sich diesem Stoff von den 30er Jahren bis zu seinem Tod.

"Victor leaves the home of his foster mother to begin his working life. His journey takes him to a remote island, where he visits his only relative, an uncle he has never met. The old man, who has never known love, lives in a barricaded mansion, surrounded by an atmosphere of death and decay." "Victor finds himself a virtual prisoner on this mysterious island and must confront his own past in order to regain control of his life."--BOOK JACKET.

A beautiful, enigmatic story by one of the greatest German-language novelists